The Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook

Samsung ChromebookAre you looking for relevant details on the Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook? Well hopefully the following information will give you a better understanding of this latest laptop from Samsung.

With this innovative product from Samsung you can enjoy lightning fast  connections with the Intel Atom dual core processor. It takes less than ten seconds to boot up your laptop allowing you to access the internet and your emails very quickly. With this particular laptop you can spend the whole day on your machine without the need for charging, as it has a superb battery which allows constant usage for up to eight hours and a half hours.

What is Google Chrome OS?

This video from Google gives a great overview of Chrome OS, the operating system used on Chromebooks.

Want to get your hands on a Chromebook? Well at the time of writing (July 2011) Samsung and Acer have various Chomebook models available with the Samsung models seemingly having the slightly better specs.

If your in the US click here for US prices for the Samsung models and here for US prices for the Acer model.

For UK readers click here for UK prices for the Samsung models , the Acer model is currently not available in the UK.

What is a Chomebook?

Samsung ChromebookOK so what exactly is a Chomebook then? Well it looks like a standard laptop but it has been built to be used solely on the web. With the theory being that this is where the majority of your computing time is spent nowadays anyway.

So what does that actually mean in practice. Well you wont be running programs from your Chromebook directly. You’ll be using browser based web apps instead. Examples of web apps are Gmail, Google Docs and Picasa which are all Google apps. But there are many many other providers of web apps which can be found the Chrome web store.